Wednesday, December 31, 2014

The year 2014 in 12 pictures

One of life's challenge is to make every day special despite all the activities we do again every day (sleep, eat, work, drink tea...). Repetitions may give a sense of immortality (like Bill Murray in 'Groundhog Day'), but they quickly become boring. From our attitude to tea, we can also find lessons for Life.

For tea, one solution is to continuously switch from one tea sample to another, but change isn't the same as quality and doesn't guarantee satisfaction. It's still important to stay attuned to what tea we feel like having: variety should match our state of mind, the time of the day and of the year (cooling teas in summer and warming teas in winter, for example). There's another way to make every tea special: creating a unique Chaxi, setup, that is in harmony with the tea we choose and the feeling we want to experience with those leaves.

This blog has now reached its 11th year of existence. Let's review, with 12 pictures from 2014, how tea continues to inspire me and my brewing: